The best solution for the UK’s European dilema seems to be the one no one ever mentions. London and the South East of England should leave the EU which will allow London to truly become the slash and burn economic capital of the world in partnership with its chums New York, Singapore, Hong Kong and the like.

The rest of Britain can then stay inside the EU and develop balanced economies which benefit ‘hard working families,’ as the political classes like to call those units they never have any contact with.